25 [Gibbon, in the sixteenth chapter of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, quotes the first part of this sentence as proving that "the learned Origen declares, in the most express terms, that the number of martyrs was very inconsiderable." But see Guizot's note on the passage. S.]

26 Epauleij.

27 Docarion.

28 staseij idiaj.

29 kai toi ou panth hsan oligoi.

30 iugc.

31 The reading in Spencer's and the Benedictine edition is upotemnomenaj, for which Lommatzsch reads upomemnhmenaj.

32 kai to dokoun.

33 apaqestata.

34 Ekdoxhn.

35 Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 12 sqq.

36 Cf. 2 Thess. ii. 2.

37 Cf. 1 Tim. vi. 20.

38 Tinej parekdoxai. [He admits the fact, but does not justify such oppositions.]